You had better get your three-day PAX East 2013 badge soon if you want to go to the show, as the tickets are now listed as "low" on the official PAX site. The tickets went on sale yesterday, October 8, and I doubt there will be any left by the end of the week. To get yours, head over to the PAX East official site and register now. PAX...

If you're anything like me, and you're at home/work during Pax East 2012, do not despair. Twitch TV is live-streaming the entire program from the Main and Naga Theatre of Pax East. I'm talking full on presentations from luminaries like Jordan "Prince of Persia" Mechner, an Uncharted presentation from Remedy and much more. The stream...

PAX East 2012 is coming up very, very soon (April 6th-8th) and G4 is ready to take you there! With their annual celebration of all things gaming related for console, PC and tabletop gamers, and their slew of nerdcore music concerts, panel discussions and endless booths from your favorite game publishers and developers, this is one convention...

G4 and our good friends at Irrational Games are planning the greatest BioShock-themed Cosplay meet-up in human history at Pax East 2012.
Pax East is between April 6 and April 8, and during the show, Irrational's staff will be walking the PAX floor all day Saturday in search of BioShock- and BioShock Infinite – themed cosplayers. If they...

Some of you might have received e-mail updates yesterday about Penny Arcade Expo East. If you didn't, here's the big news: the dates for next year's Boston-based PAX East have been officially set for April 6-8. The more religious Jewish and Christian folk among you will notice immediately that there's a pretty big conflict here.
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PAX East saw a flood of exciting news this year. G4 was on the floor with their hands on every demo and preview they could cram in during their time in Boston. In case you missed any of the coverage, we’ve rounded up all the news, previews and reviews that focus on one of our favorite gaming genres, the MMO. Take a look at all of our...

Cliff Bleszinski and Tim Schafer are both legendary game designers, and share a deep desire to appear on X-Play. Adam and Morgan caught up with Cliff and Tim at Pax East 2011.
First up, Epic's Bleszinski takes X-Play to task for their 4 out of 5 star review of his Bulletstorm...
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I'm not one for unquestioning endorsements (ok, I am), but I unquestioningly endorse Shoot Many Robots. The downloadable arcade shoot-everything-you-see game mashes Metal Slug with Borderlands and ends up with gold. It's both hardcore and light-hearted, and that's the sweet-spot for fun, if you ask me. You'll want to gather three of your friends...

Adam Sessler got to speak with Chris Rippy, the producer of Orcs Must Die! at PAX East. Orcs Must Die! takes a new spin on tower defense games, putting you right in the action and allowing you to lay traps and cast spells to kill as many possessed orcs as possible.
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PAX East always has some amazing discussions and panels about what it takes to make a great game, and this year was no different. Inspired by these conversations, Adam decided to take a moment and get on his Soapbox to discuss why he thinks world-building is one of the most important elements of video game development. Is it the universe that...

Call of Juarez: The Cartel has quite a bit of buzz surrounding it, partly because of the minor controversy its announcement caused due to it being partially set in a real world urban war zone, and partly because it’s the latest sequel to the surprisingly solid Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. Needless to say, we were quite anxious to get...

It seems every time we see ArenaNet’s massively ambitious MMO Guild Wars 2, we come away more and more impressed and intrigued than we were before. As you’d expect, this happened yet again during PAX East where we attended ArenNet’s panel presentation that was, for the most part, devoted to answering fans’ burning...

By Dennis Scimeca
With so many platforms and mediums on which to purchase and play our games, how do we decide how much a game is worth anymore? Lord of the Rings Online is an infinite experience which is entirely free to play. Limbo only takes three to four hours to complete and actually costs you money. AAA titles with ten-hour-long campaigns...

By Dennis Scimeca
Alex Leavitt, a researcher of Comparative Media Studies at MIT and Microsoft Research, wants us to view Minecraft as a lens through which to view the current state of game culture, but first we have to tackle the question of what "game culture" actually is.
Game culture can be eSports fans hanging on the edges of...

By Dennis Scimeca
This session at PAX East consisted mostly of Q&A from the audience, but IGDA Director Tom Buscaglia wanted to open up with a discussion of Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the court case that centers around fines for sales of violent video games to minors. Seth Krauss, Executive VP and General Counsel...